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JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest.
“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma...
JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.”
“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.”
Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
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J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima
JOHN GREEN But it's your life.
JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round.
JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ...
JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.
JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and...
JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt.
JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ...
JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries..
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JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu...
JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?”
“Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<...
JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.”
“This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y...
JOHN GREEN I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action...
JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou...
JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted...
JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying...
JOHN GREEN I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up.
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JOHN GREEN You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurt...
JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
JOHN GREEN I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up
JOHN GREEN I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus W...
JOHN GREEN I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He ...
JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
JOHN GREEN I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good...
JOHN GREEN Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says,...
JOHN GREEN I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will c...
JOHN GREEN you gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little...
JOHN GREEN I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time ...
JOHN GREEN My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
JOHN GREEN I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I...
JOHN GREEN He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice...
JOHN GREEN Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.
JOHN GREEN I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
JOHN GREEN Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist."
"If by defeatist you mean honest, the...
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JOHN GREEN The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
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JOHN GREEN Even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncrea...
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"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner conce...
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JOHN GREEN Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he h...
JOHN GREEN You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!
JOHN GREEN You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
JOHN GREEN I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too.
JOHN GREEM As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.
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JOHN GREEN Vai chegar um dia em que todos vamos estar mortos. Todos nós. Vai chegar um dia em que não vai sob...
JOHN GREEN The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet a...
JOHN GREEN Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
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JOHN GREEN All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said
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JOHN GREEN Sería un honor tener el corazón roto por ti, Hazel Grace.
JOHN GREEN Our players and coaches loved it.
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CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa...
LARRY CHARLES I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
CHARLES DICKENS